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INTERIOR WALL FINISH.

No. 361,687. Patented Apr. 26, 1887.

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No. 361,687. Patented Apr. 26, 1887.

UNITE OLIVER L. GARDNER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALFRED VAN DERWERKEN, OF SAME PLACE.

INTERIOR WALL FINISH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,687, dated April 26,1887.

Application filed July 22, 1886. Serial No. 208,778. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OLIVER L. GARDNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Interior WVall Finish, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawlugs.

This invention relates to wall or other ornamentation; and the novelty consists in the construction and adaptation of peculiar plates of straw lumber and their arrangement with re lation to a suitable base, as will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

I am an officer and prominent stockholder in the company which owns and controls Reissued Patents Nos. 10,387 and 10,886 of September 25, 1883. The former patent is for a paper-board composed of several sheets of paper saturated with resin and oil and united together by heat and pressure. The present invention is based upon that patent, and is the result of patient and persistent experiments in connection with the work of introducing this peculiar straw lumber. In another allowed application, Serial No. 147,865, I set forth a similar section of straw lumber having its exposed face composed of a separate sheet of decorated material.

The present invention differs from the patent first mentioned,in that it is provided with a decorated face, and it difiers from the device set forth in the allowed application, in that the decorated face is integral with the lumber itself and not a separate sheet applied thereto; hence the invention consists in a homogeneous board composed of several sheets of paper treated with an adhesive material, as oil and resin, the whole united by heat and a pressure, and having one of its faces provided with alternate projections and depressions to form figures and decorations.-

In the drawings, Figure 1- represents a section of a wallfinish ed with material constructed in accordance with my invention. Figs. 2 to 5 represent detail perspective views of sections of the finishing material having their outer surfaces provided with designs of different styles made in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 6 represents a portion ofa ceiling finished with material constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 7 represents a sectional view taken on the line x m of Fig. 6.v

Referring to the drawings, A designates block of paper lumber made essentially according to provisions of reissued patents hereinbefore mentioned, and composed of several sheets of paper treated with an adhesive material and united by heat and pressure. or both of the plates or rollers with which the pressure is effected is made in the form of a die to ornament the surface during the process of manufacture.

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a designates the ornamentation, which may be of different and varying designs.

In the drawings I have shown, in Fig. 1, a wall finished with material made in accordance with my invention, the different members of which I will now proceed to name and describe.

D designates the cornice, which in the present instance is plain, having an ornamented edge.

E designates the frieze, the surface of which is divided into parallel strips 6, alternately raised portions e, depressed parts e,and semicircular bars a extending from one to the other, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

F designates the picture-molding, formed in a continuous strip, as is the frieze E, having its outer surface roughened and provided with a design, f, projectingslightly beyond said roughened surface.

The wall G may or may not have an exterior finish formed in accordance with my invention.

H designates the chair-rail or upper memvide the wainscoting into equal spaces.

It will be understood that any desired-form of finish may be given to the different memhers comprised in a wall in lieu of that described above, inasmuch as my invention is confined to no particular form or design, it being applicable to any and all styles.

-I will now proceed to describe the application of my invention to a ceiling, as illustrated \.in Figs. 6 and 7, in which the material is applied directly to the timbers. See e,'Fig. 7, said letter designating the joists, to which is secured, upon the lower surface and sides thereof, sections of paper lumber finished inaccordance with my invention In Fig. 6 I

have shown sections of joists arranged transversely to the joists e,to form a design consisting of a series of squares, each havinga differ ent finish,applied to a base situated in a plane at or near the inner surface of the joists.

; The foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings, will fully explain the nature and obj ect of my invention.

In another application filed by me July'22, 1886, Serial No. 208,777, I have claimed the faces impressed or embossed with figures 5 formed in the process of manufacture, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. O.'L. GARDNERQ Witnesses:

A. VAN DERWERKEN, J os. R. EDSON. 

